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Reparations are broadly understood as compensation given for an abuse or injury. [1] The colloquial meaning of reparations has changed substantively over the last century. In the early 1900s, reparations were interstate exchanges (see war reparations) that were punitive mechanisms determined by treaty and paid by the surrendering side of a conflict, such as the World War I reparations paid by ...
In the Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law, reparation include the following forms: restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition, whereby
Wiedergutmachung (German pronunciation: [viːdɐˈɡuːtˌmaxʊŋ] ⓘ; German: "compensation", "restitution") refers to the reparations that the German government agreed to pay in 1953 to the direct survivors of the Holocaust, and to those who were made to work at forced labour camps or who otherwise became victims of the Nazis.
Reparations for slavery applies the UN reparations framework to the human rights violations of U.S. chattel slavery and its legacies for victims of slavery and/or their descendants. There are concepts for reparations in legal philosophy and reparations in transitional justice. Reparations can take many forms, including practical and financial ...
The abrupt dismissal of a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is seen as a stinging setback for restitution efforts nationwide. But many critics say the case justifies the ...
The objective of the project is to collect and collate metadata and provide full text index from several national and international digital libraries and other relevant sources. The NDLI provides free access to many books and is designed to hold content in any language, offering search support for the 12 most widely used Indian languages.
The Golden State is trying to create a path for reparations for the harms of slavery — and may be creating a model for more governments to use. California’s reparations task force aims to ...
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